Sentence examples for almost extraordinary from inspiring English sources

And it seems almost extraordinary to us now that there were people arguing throughout the 1930s that actually the way to deal with Hitler was to make a gesture of disarmament.

'It seems almost extraordinary to us now that there were people arguing through the 1930s that the way to deal with Hitler was to make a gesture of disarmament,' he said.

First, because Britain's fifth national otter survey, to be published later this summer, will confirm that otters have, in the last decade or so, made the most extraordinary comeback, almost from the dead, and are continuing to fare well in almost all areas of the UK.

He had the most extraordinary knowledge of almost every subject you could ever ask him about, and had this fascinating position in British public life for the last 60 years.

Most extraordinary was an almost certainly false claim that emerged during the armed siege of Merah's apartment block: that in 2008 he escaped in a mass jailbreak in Kandahar, where he had been arrested for bombmaking the previous year.

Suddenly, something almost as extraordinary seemed possible.

But the U.S. Treasury bond bubble of late 2008 may be regarded as almost equally extraordinary".

The erudition is almost as extraordinary as the prose: dense, knowing, allusive.

"It is almost laughable, extraordinary and inhumane that juveniles are held there".

Mr Miliband and the rest may not have jumped, but this lukewarm support is almost as extraordinary as rebellion.

Her private life was then almost as extraordinary as her fame, and perhaps helped to stoke her celebrity.